[AccessD] Zoho Access Migration Plugin

jwcolby jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Fri Aug 14 09:11:07 CDT 2009


 >I hate to have to be the one to break the bad news to Michael, but for an increasingly large 
percentage of users, the desktop application is already dead.

Hmm...

Pick any office app... Word, Excel, Power Point, Access etc etc.  Not web.
Office Star - Not web

Email clients - not web
Browsers themselves (though they paint the web) - not web

Just going through my program list on my computer...

Streets and Trips - not web (though web equivalents exist)
Ultra Edit
Acoustica Mixcraft (music mixer)
Band-In-A-Box (Music)
Falcon 4.0 (flight simulator)
Morrowind (RPG)
DB Power amp (plays / converts music)
Easy Log (interfaces to temperature sensor)
Empire Deluxe (simulation)
Free Download Manager (robust download manager for the web)
FS1 Flight simulator for RC planes
Hamachi (VPN software)
ITunes
ALL OF THE MICROSOFT STUFF...
MozBackup (Firefox / Thunderbird backup program)
Thunderbird (email client)

Hmm... OK this is getting boring...

I have just gone about 1/2rd of the way down the list of all of the programs installed on my 
computer and absolutely NONE OF THEM, Not ONE, nada, zipo zilch... is a web based application 
(interface rendered by a browser).  Several (though still a small minority) use the web in some way, 
but NONE (not a SINGLE ONE) actually uses an interface rendered by a browser.

What I see is that I use a search engine (Google) as an application.  I interface to banking and my 
credit cards over the web... I suppose those could be considered web based "applications".  My son 
plays web based games...  Other than that most everything that I use on my computer is typical exe / 
dll kind of stuff, including viewing movies and listening to movies.  Movies are going download of 
course but the DISPLAY of the movies is still a program running on my machine, not browser based.

 >I hate to have to be the one to break the bad news to Michael, but for an increasingly large 
percentage of users, the desktop application is already dead.

Am I REALLY in the minority?  Sob...

OK, let's take a poll... anyone who cares to respond do an inventory of the software on your machine 
and tell us

1) Number of browser rendered apps
2) Number of browser rendered "apps" you use hosted on the web.  I would include search engine and 
all the social sites here (facebook etc).  IMs themselves tend to be local programs that USE the 
web, though not always.
2) Number of non-browser rendered apps.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


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